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has so good a chance of picking up the widely 

 diversified acquirements of a thoroughly good 

 huntsman as a whipper-in. This berth, of 

 course, is the ree^ulation " school " for recruits 

 to the huntsmen ranks. But when the 

 aspiring amateur wishes to hunt a pack, 

 there is nothing like physicking himself, so to 

 speak, with a mixture consisting of three parts 

 watchful experience to one of written advice. 



To a man who is naturally a lover of 

 hounds, few sights are prettier than a clever 

 " draw " up wind for a fox. Some men, 

 thoroughly efficient in other respects, are 

 apt to hurry this part of the business in 

 their anxiety to get away for a gallop. 

 But it is a bad fault. You may draw over 

 a fox, and very soon get yourself a name 

 as a bad finder of foxes. Besides which it 

 unsettles hounds, and they grow careless and 

 slack. As a rule, in open ground you will 

 draw up wind — or it may sometimes be found 

 advisable to draw with the wind slightly 

 '^ abeam " of you. A fox is often to ])e found 

 in withy osier beds, or curled up on a sunny 



